When jail healthcare is outsourced to for-profit medical providers, inmates pay the price.

An unarmed man, a cop charged with murder, and the challenge of policing mental illness.

There’s a tale about a boy in Waycross. Near a canal, he struck a match, lit a piece of newspaper, and tossed it into the water. But when the burning paper touched the surface, it didn’t go out. The water burst into flames.

After flames engulfed an Atlanta highway last year, police arrested Basil Eleby for arson. The fire could have destroyed his life. Instead, it may have saved it.

Of the 4.5 million Syrians who have fled their nation’s bloody civil war, fewer than 3,000 have made it to America. This is one family’s story.

The author ponders the dissolution of his own marriage, and others.

After Brooke Melton died in a car crash, her parents approached attorney Lance Cooper to investigate. What he found in her 2005 Chevy Cobalt would lead to GM’s 30 million-vehicle recall.

The sheriff of Putnam County, Georgia, finally meets a case he can’t solve.

A refugee survives the Rwandan genocide and finds a future in Atlanta.

A father who brought his daughter to a ballgame and the fallout from a foul ball.

A pastor-turned-banker fakes his own death after allegedly embezzling millions and defrauding investors.

In North Georgia, two men feud over a quarter-mile property line.

An oral history of the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot.

Throughout their troubled lives, identical twins William and Chris Cormier shared a preternatural bond. Then the body of a Florida journalist ended up in their backyard.

At various points, Thomas Mitchell was a novelist, an attorney, a scientist, a Hollywood dealmaker and a CIA higher-up. He was also a con man.

Darren Lumar lived in mansions he didn’t own, ran companies that didn’t make a dime, went to colleges that didn’t exist and slept with “any number of women” despite being married to James Brown’s daughter. When he was murdered, the cops had a problem: too many possible suspects.

A couple’s story.

Eighteen-year-old Justin Gaines disappears after a night at a bar.

A survivor’s frightening account.

On the Final Exit Network, a controversial right-to-die organization, and the death of their client John Celmer.

A family of Georgia churchgoers contracted the plague of their time, HIV. Some survived, some didn’t—this is the story of their family over thirty years.

Fourteen other tornadoes hit Georgia on April 27 and 28. This was not the record — that would be twenty, during Tropical Storm Alberto in 1994. But it was one of the worst twenty-four-hour periods in the history of the state. Tornadoes hit Trenton, Cherokee Valley, south of LaGrange, and Covington; killed seven people in a neighborhood in Catoosa County, swept through Ringgold, and killed two more — a disabled man and his caregiver — in a double-wide trailer on the far end of Spalding County. Those tornadoes got all the attention. The Vaughn tornado didn’t even warrant an article in a major newspaper. No one talked about Vaughn. The only way for a person to really find out about it was to drive past.

Four unhealthy, bearded, mostly unknown comedians from Atlanta tour 3,020 miles in a van.

On the fascination, from Hollywood to Atlanta, with zombies.

The story of H1N1 and one of the lives it claimed.